Bug 276696 - Prevent Focus Stealing not as expected
Summary: Prevent Focus Stealing not as expected
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 110543
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian unstable Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2011-06-28 15:23 UTC by Jeffrey
Modified: 2012-03-17 21:59 UTC (History)
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Description Jeffrey 2011-06-28 15:23:39 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.3) 
OS:                Linux

I've set my KDE Control > Focus > Focus Stealing Prevention Level from its default (low) to higher settings (extreme), in order to prevent exactly that: focus stealing.  I expect this to:
1. prevent other apps from stealing my focus
2. prevent popups from this app from stealing my focus

However, what happens in reality is that new windows/popups go below my current window.  That isn't at all what I wanted.  I want my focus to stay where it is and allow me to continue to work on that window, with the popup still being on top (unless I click on something that would cause it to be otherwise).

I have Focus Follows Mouse set so that i can work where I point, not where the popups are.  This should only steal my focus for new windows if my parent window cannot do anything while the child window is open

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Set Focus Stealing Prevention to Extreme.  Open a program with multiple windows, for example Gimp.  Try to open a dialog (for example, a color correction dialog) that allows me to continue editing the image while this new window is open.  The new window opens below the existing window.  I don't want this new dialog to be hidden, I just didn't want it to steal my focus-follows-mouse.

Actual Results:  
The new window opens below the existing window.

Expected Results:  
I don't want this new dialog to be hidden, I just didn't want it to steal my focus-follows-mouse.

Perhaps my setting of 'Extreme' causes this behaviour that I don't want, and another option would better suit my needs?  If so, can these various levels of Focus-Stealing-Prevention be clarified in the Configure Window Behaviour dialog?

Thanks for KDE!
Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2012-03-17 21:59:20 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 110543 ***